Past Events

Underscore_VC: How VCs Help Ventures Scale 

Moderated by Lily Lyman, Partner @ Underscore_VC, join us for an afternoon discussion with ventures Pagos Solutions, Transfyr, and TetraScience. Questions will range from idea formation, company building at an early stage, seeking VC funds, process interacting with VCs like Underscore, lessons learned, and growing ventures. Come with your own questions and to enjoy a great event! 

Ari Chadda is a Member of Technical Staff at Transfyr—building the API layer for science to improve the distribution of scientific innovations to the real world. He was previously a Senior Data Scientist at In-Q-Tel where he worked on building robust physical and digital autonomous systems. Ari holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. 

Patrick Grady serves as the Chairman and CEO of TetraScience, the world's Scientific Data and AI Cloud. TetraScience is committed to solving humanity’s grand challenges by radically accelerating and improving scientific breakthroughs. This begins with replatforming and reengineering the world's scientific data to enable AI-based discovery, development, and manufacturing. 

Jonathan Tushman is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Hi Marley. He is a passionate technology leader and three-time Founder with 20+ years of experience leading world-class Product and Engineering organizations, notably at InsightSquared and ZEFR. Jonathan loves building teams, software and companies. Jonathan has an MBA from Harvard Business School and earned his BSEE degree from University of Rochester. Jonathan is family man and loves spending time with his wife and three kids. When not with them, you can find him playing nerdy board games or in the kitchen cooking and baking!

*Thank you for your interest in joining us for our upcoming VC Breakfast -- this event is limited to members of CSAIL, our CSAIL Alliances members, and selected guests from the MIT community as space permits. As noted on the registration form, filling the form does not guarantee entry into the event. You will be contacted by a member of CSAIL Alliances to confirm your registration as space permits*

Future Labs Capital (FLC), a Louisville, Kentucky–based venture capital firm with two funds under management mainly focused in early-stage quantum computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technology companies which are rapidly setting the pace for the future of many of the world’s leading business markets, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, information technology, biotechnology, and digital infrastructure. FLC formed a strategic partnership with MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) in 2021 providing the firm with unique access to the most cutting-edge MIT CSAIL technologies and technologists and ability to select the most promising ventures for outside venture investment and early-stage company development. Through its relationship with MIT CSAIL, Future Labs Capital reviews approximately 2,500 opportunities per year for possible investment.

Future Labs Capital is a high-performing venture capital firm with a track record of rapid deployment, strategic exits, and strong investor returns. FLC launched its first fund in 2022, investing in quantum computing and AI companies such as Atlantic Quantum, DeepKinetix, Array Insight, AssayQuant, Untitled, Trilio, and XRHealth, driving 10X returns for investors while successfully helping guide company development and growth.. Future Labs Capital has achieved notable success in the venture and growth equity space, reporting $50M total company investments and $200M in assets under management and supervision to date.

Regarding the MIT CSAIL and FLC partnership, Hugh M. Shwab IV (Mack), Co-Founder and General Partner at Future Labs Capital states, “We continue to build on the foundation we’ve laid with MIT CSAIL to support the next generation of deep tech companies while allocating capital and operating expertise to these early-stage ventures working on practical applications in science, engineering, and computing. We’ve seen firsthand the success we can have in providing early capital and support for these breakthrough technologies and giving these teams the capital and guidance to move from lab to market.”

For more information on Future Labs Capital, visit https://futurelabscapital.com/

This event is presented by MIT CSAIL Alliances and hosted in Palo Alto, California by Alliances member LDV Partners with DaVinci Cafe. 

CSAIL Alliances members, please join us for our 2nd annual Embodied Intelligence Summit. MIT CSAIL is a leading hub for embodied intelligence research, with the of understanding the nature of intelligent behavior in the physical world, through the study of human intelligence and the design and implementation of intelligent robots. We bring expertise in perception, sensing, language, learning and planning, and have the objective of integrating these disciplines to make physical agents with human-like intelligence.

In this engaging summit, dive deep with talks from four leading MIT CSAIL faculty members

• CSAIL Director Professor Daniela Rus: Physical AI
• CSAIL Associate Director Professor Armando Solar-Lezama: Programming with AI Beyond Vibe Coding
• Associate Professor Phillip Isola: Language as a Camera
• Associate Professor Vincent Sitzmann: Modeling the world (and yourself) from vision

Additionally, hear from the head of LDV Partners and bring questions for two compelling panels featuring startups and industry, moderated by LDV Partners.  Panel conversations will dive into how companies are turning raw multimodal inputs (vision, movement, biometric signals) into actionable intelligence as well as exploring advances in manipulation, assistive systems, and humanoid platforms for real-world impact.

Meet CSAIL Alliances startups Leela AI, Dexmate, and Autonomous Living Technology, and Liquid AI, as well as K-Scale Labs, RealSense, and Waymo.

There will be networking opportunities during breakfast and lunch. 

Traveling? Graduate (by Hilton) Palo Alto is extending a special 15% discount for the Summit. Book directly with this link: Graduate Palo Alto Booking Link | MIT Special Events (If you wish to book directly through the hotel website, click "special rates" and enter this code in the corporate account field: 2787021)

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